Immigrants in the United States: “Illegal Aliens” On Their Way To Becoming Emergent “Possible Subjects”

From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States

From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey data alone, and the two jointly – and provides estimates for the FY 1996 cohort of new i...

Comptroller General - OF THE UNITED STATES New Alien Identification System - - Little Help In Stopping Illegal Aliens

Education Level and Self-rated Health in the United States: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns

Introduction: Although education is among the major socioeconomic status (SES) resources that influence populations’ and individuals’ health, social marginalization may reduce the health gain that follows access to SES indicators such as education, a pattern called marginalization-related diminished return (MDR). The literature on MDRs, however, has been mainly derived from stu...

Social Determinants of Polypharmacy in First Generation Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

How ‘‘undocumented workers’’ and ‘‘illegal aliens’’ affect prejudice toward Mexican immigrants

Although the terms ‘‘illegal aliens’’ and ‘‘undocumented workers’’ are often used interchangeably to refer to the same immigrant population, they have very different connotations. The present study investigated why these two terms invoke different levels of prejudice. A group of undergraduate students (n1⁄4 269) were assigned to evaluate either ‘‘illegal aliens’’ or ‘‘undocumented workers.’’ Tw...